ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2019
Neural processing of infant and adult face emotion and maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment.
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- Emotion Recognition in Adults With a History of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Neural Correlates of Maternal Posttraumatic Stress in the First Postpartum Year: Blunted Salience and Prefrontal Responses to Infant Distress.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Maternal cortisol concentration is associated with reduced brain activation to infant cry and more intrusive parenting behavior.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of altered emotional responsivity to infant stimuli in mothers who use substances.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Maternal History of Childhood Maltreatment and Brain Responses to Infant Cues Across the Postpartum Period.Child maltreatment · 2024Article
- Parental depression moderates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and the recognition of children expressions of emotions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting.Social neuroscience · 2022Article
- Postpartum Stress and Neural Regulation of Emotion among First-Time Mothers.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Neurobiological Implications of Parent-Child Emotional Availability: A Review.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Reported maternal childhood maltreatment experiences, amygdala activation and functional connectivity to infant cry.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- How stress can influence brain adaptations to motherhood.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2021Review
- Associations between stress exposure and new mothers' brain responses to infant cry sounds.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Recognition of children's emotional facial expressions among mothers reporting a history of childhood maltreatment.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Face processing in mothers is linked to mother-infant social communication, which is critical for parenting and in turn for child development. Neuroimaging studies of child maltreatment-exposed (CME) mothers are sparse compared to studies of mothers with postpartum depression, which have suggested blunted amygdala reactivity to infant stimuli. We expected to see a similar pattern in CME mothers. Based on broader studies in trauma-exposed populations, we anticipated increased amygdala reactivity to negative adult face stimuli in a comparison task in CME mothers given heightened evaluation of potential threat. We examined Neuroimaging studies of mothers with childhood maltreatment exposure (CME) (18-37 years old), who performed infant (N = 45) and/or adult (N = 46) face processing tasks. CME mothers exhibited blunted bilateral amygdala reactivity to infant faces. There was no between-group difference in amygdala reactivity to adult faces. In infant and adult face processing tasks regardless of CME, superior temporal gyrus activation was increased for negative-valence stimuli. Our preliminary findings suggest that childhood maltreatment alters maternal processing of infant social cues, a critical skill impacting infant socioemotional development.
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